2017/18 Sevens route to world domination

[General Zod]

HT 7-7. Lineout a shambles and Samoa had 6 men for 4 minutes of that half. Anyway, still in it. Hopefully the team talk will iron out some of those issues.

[General Zod]

Lineout still terrible - Samoa score off our most recent one. 7-12.

Max McFarland playing well tho.

[General Zod]

7-17 from an avoidable turnover. Playing like strangers.

90 seconds left.

[sharvey44]

It's so frustrating watching them

[General Zod]

FT lost 7-17. A load of crap.

Next match is Japan - South Africa. Only one result there...

[af73]

Samoa just had to stand there, hold their side in at how comically inept we were, and score when they could be bothered.

Two linouts were so far off line the scrum half had to reach backwards to gather. Some truly eccentric French refereeing as well. For both yellow cards he spent so much time fannying about with the scrum that 50 seconds of the 2 minute sin bin had elapsed before the ball was back into play.
To cap it we had 30 seconds to score and restart - one backwards pass was ruled forward and a penalty called back for being an inch off the mark. Samoa ran out the clock fron the resulting scrum.

Entire game should have been set to the Benny Hill theme music.

[General Zod]

Samoa just had to stand there, hold their side in at how comically inept we were, and score when they could be bothered.

Two linouts were so far off line the scrum half had to reach backwards to gather. Some truly eccentric French refereeing as well. For both yellow cards he spent so much time fannying about with the scrum that 50 seconds of the 2 minute sin bin had elapsed before the ball was back into play.
To cap it we had 30 seconds to score and restart - one backwards pass was ruled forward and a penalty called back for being an inch off the mark. Samoa ran out the clock fron the resulting scrum.

Entire game should have been set to the Benny Hill theme music.

Quite an accurate summary!

[OptimisticJock]

Embra boys made a difference when they came on in last 2 matches

[General Zod]

Lost to SA but beat Fiji. Playing Canada at 1206.

Need to win that and hope SA do the business v Fiji.

[General Zod]

First half dogshit so far. 5-21, Canada had 6 men for 2 minutes as well.

[General Zod]

A promising start to the season being wasted. Lost.

[General Zod]

As we drift towards a 10th place finish for the year, today sees us play New Zealand, Japan and hosts, France.

First match v NZ is at 1212 today.

As a side note, Wales could get relegated today. They have SA, Aus and Kenya in their pool. They are only 3 points ahead of Kenya overall, so it could get interesting if Kenya pick something up against one of the other teams and wales don’t.

[General Zod]

Wales lose to RSA; Kenya draw with Australia (when they should have won). Kenya - wales shaping up to be tasty.

[General Zod]

Doing a lot of good work here, including keeping a clean sheet during a yellow card, but our determination to keep handing the ball back to New Zealand is proving our undoing. Still, would take parity at this stage.

HT

All Blacks 7 - 7 All Lime Greens

[General Zod]

Good try, Bryce in the corner after being put in by Baretto.

7-12 to the all greens.

[General Zod]

Try ABs. A little unlucky as we were down to 6 due to an injury.

14-12 ABs. 27 seconds left.

[General Zod]

FT LOST 14-12.

[General Zod]

Beat Japan with the last kick of the game from out wide. Lost to France earlier (who lost to Japan), so if NZ beat France by a lot of points now, we’re through to the big cup for Scott Riddell’s last hurrah.

Currently 5-12 to NZ at mi-temps.

[Big D]

Ciaran Beattie appointed Scotland 7s coach apparently there were applications from likes of Damian McGrath.

[Big D]

Looks like a decent appointment and another Scottish young coach getting a chance.

[Tobylerone]

Noticed that the Greenyards pitch has been ripped up to take a synthetic replacement.